Why a home-ed app should have no streaks, no scores

Streaks are demands. For a demand-avoidant child, the moment something becomes required is the moment it becomes the thing to resist, even if they wanted to do it five minutes earlier.

Scores are performance frames. For a child who already feels measured and found wanting at school, one more place keeping count is one more place to fail.

The mechanics that drive engagement in most learning apps produce shutdown for these kids. Sustenance has neither.

It is built for home-educating families with neurodivergent children. The child-facing side has a space for life skills and self-chosen learning, with no prompts telling them to show up on the app's schedule.

The parent side solves a different problem. Home-educating parents in Ireland and the UK have to demonstrate what learning is happening. Sustenance turns ordinary observation into a review-ready record. The accountability stays with the adult, not on the child as a score.